Derek Winnert

Die, Monster, Die! [Monster of Terror] ** (1965, Boris Karloff, Nick Adams, Freda Jackson, Suzan Farmer) – Classic Movie Review 6145

‘It COULD happen! It MAY happen! It MIGHT happen! to YOU!’ Really? I don’t think so! Debut director Daniel Haller’s atmospheric and well acted but slow-moving horror movie is a loose adaptation of the H […]

Oct, 27 · in Uncategorized

First Man Into Space *** (1959, Marshall Thompson, Marla Landi, Bill Edwards, Carl Jaffe) – Classic Movie Review 6144

‘First motion picture to lift the veil, foresee the future in a spectacular drama of the first man in history to be rocketed into the terrifying unknown of outer space!’ Director Robert Day’s well-liked low-budget […]

Oct, 26 · in Uncategorized

Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool **** (2017, Annette Bening, Jamie Bell, Julie Walters, Kenneth Cranham, Stephen Graham, Vanessa Redgrave, Frances Barber) – Movie Review

In 1981, British actor Peter Turner got a dramatic phone call that his former lover, the Oscar-winning Hollywood actress Gloria Grahame, had collapsed in a Lancaster hotel and was refusing hospital care. Film Stars Don’t […]

Oct, 26

Never Take Sweets from a Stranger *** (1960, Gwen Watford, Patrick Allen, Felix Aylmer) – Classic Movie Review 6143

Director Cyril Frankel’s 1960 British mystery horror drama is taken from Roger Emerson Garis’s play The Pony Cart. Gwen Watford and Patrick Allen star as English married couple Sally and Peter Carter, who start a […]

Oct, 25

Dreyfus [The Dreyfus Case] *** (1931, Cedric Hardwicke, George Merritt, Charles Carson, Sam Livesey, Garry Marsh, Randle Ayrton, George Zucco) – Classic Movie Review 6142

Cedric Hardwicke stars as the real-life French-Jewish officer Captain Alfred Dreyfus, who is accused and convicted of spying in 1890s France, after German staff had forged evidence to convict him, ending up doing life on […]

Oct, 25

The Good Companions **** (1933, John Gielgud, Edmund Gwenn, Mary Glynne, Jessie Matthews, Max Miller) – Classic Movie Review 6141

Director Victor Saville’s delightful and charming 1933 British film musical version of J B Priestley’s funny novel (and Edward Knoblock’s play version) about a concert party on tour stars the formidable team of John Gielgud, Edmund […]

Oct, 25

Brawl in Cell Block 99 **** (2017, Vince Vaughn, Jennifer Carpenter, Don Johnson, Udo Kier, Marc Blucas) – Movie Review

Writer-director S Craig Zahler’s head-banging, stomach churning horror thriller is exceptionally well done, mostly brilliantly done. It is ultra tense, deeply creepy and really exciting, often thrilling. Doing a John Wick to revive his career with an […]

Oct, 25

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